Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced

Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Howdy folks, Im back! It feels like forever since I last posted, although its only been a couple of weeks. Lots to tell you about. Fall Travel About an hour after I launched the new site (talk about cutting it close), I left for the first leg of my fall recruitment travel. As to not completely bore you with the details of my trip I will compose them in haiku. Drove down Saturday, hung out with my family at Moms house in Philly On Sunday I held the Philly central meeting in Fort Washington On Monday morning I went to Philly schools, then drove to Delaware Went to one school there. Wilmington central meeting took place Monday night. Back in Philly on Tuesday for more school visits. Then Northern Jersey. School visit Tuesday afternoon in Hackensack. They gave me cake. Heart. Big meeting Tues night; afterwards, sent rude texts to Nance from hotel bar. Wednesday school visits on Staten Island and then in East Brunswick, then Chilis (love Chilis!) and then later, the meeting for Central Jersey. Drove to Baltimore on Thursday, but that was fun, not work (more family) Then back to Moms house on Thursday night, where I got some sleep finally On friday I drove back to Massachusetts and slept until Sunday. The end. P.S. XPN in Philly and Jack in NY/NJ both ROCK MY SOCKS. Ive lived here so long that Ive forgotten what its like to be in love with a radio station. Not that radio in Boston is particularly awful, but I could swear at times that XPN and Jack were reading my mind. I want radio like that. Except Keri just got a radio show, so there may be hope for this city after all. The New Bloggers First: I am so, so sorry that it took us so long to finalize decisions. This is the first year in which the program was big enough that it required an official application/selection process, and clearly we were not prepared for the overlap of our recruitment travel season with the blogger selection window. With most of the committee members out of the office (out of the state, for that matter), we realized quickly how difficult it would be to come to a consensus via sporadic emails and text messages. Weve learned a lot of lessons which well implement next year. But to those of you who have been so patient this year, thanks for bearing with us. And again, big apologies for the delay. We received many, many blog applications, and all of them were fantastic. You are all incredibly talented; one of the joys of the blogger selection process is that it reinforces the work we do in that other admissions process. Quite simply, your blogs and the energy, creativity, and enthusiasm therein confirm the great decisions we made in admitting you to MIT. We have hired three bloggers at this juncture. A fourth will likely be added in the future, pending some logistical issues. If I havent contacted you personally, we were unfortunately not able to offer you a blogging spot for this admissions cycle. Without further delay, the new admissions bloggers are Jess Kim 10, Keri Garel 10, and Lulu Liu 09. Youve already met Jess; Keri and Lulu will be making their introductions soon. Thanks again for your patience throughout this long process, and for applying to be bloggers. NACAC Matt and I are off to NACAC tomorrow, where weve been asked to present the MIT admissions blogging program for a second year in a row. This year well be joined by admissions officers from two other schools, a sign that this thing just keeps growing and growing, spreading from one campus to the next. The success of these blogs is all about you. From all of us who work on these projects, on behalf of both MIT and our peer institutions thank you for helping us to make this community what it is. See you when I get back from Pittsburgh!